Andrew Mueller
Andrew Mueller was Reviews Editor at Melody Maker from 1991 until 1993, and a freelance contributor to the magazine until 1996. He has since written for all sorts of publications about all sorts of things, but currently contributes more or less regularly to Monocle, Esquire, Uncut, The Guardian, The Times, The New Humanist and eMusic, among others.
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Beenie Man: Tatchell v Beenie Man: Arrest This Development
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 4 September 2004
LET'S HOPE THAT no friends of the Jamaican dancehall artist Beenie Man have recently reminded him that the only thing worse than being talked about ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 18 January 2003
A FEW WEEKS ago, a nationwide leap in gun crime was lent grim focus by the murder of two young women at a party in ...
Report by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 19 March 2005
IT'S NOT THE sort of job that often gets advertised. Michael Hutchence, notwithstanding his bizarre death, aged 37, in 1997, generally looked like he was ...
INXS: Michael Hutchence 1960-1997
Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1998
THAT MICHAEL HUTCHENCE should fail to reach his 40th birthday is, perhaps, no surprise in itself – his career was distinguished by a wholehearted subscription ...
Elvis Costello: Elvis Lives!!!
Interview by Andrew Mueller, On The Street, 18 January 1989
IN THE BEGINNING was the Word. And the word was No.No as in No Interview. Elvis Costello would be talking about his forthcoming album, Spike, ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 April 1995
Radiohead: The Forum, London ...
Pop Will Eat Itself: No One Likes Us, We Don't Care
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 11 March 1995
SO NO ONE likes Pop Will Eat Itself, and they don't care. Not strictly true, of course – after all, they've enjoyed a good dozen ...
Hunter S Thompson: Rock of Rages
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 26 February 2005
FOLLOWING HUNTER S THOMPSON'S suicide, many obituarists, looking for a representative snippet of the Doctor's bug-eyed vitriol, served up the following trenchant assessment of the ...
American Music Club: 'Club for Zeroes'
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 27 March 1993
AMC MAKE MUSIC for losers, loners, early-hour fuck-ups and late-night wasters. Perfect for us, really. ...
Randy Newman: Overdue Renaissance Of A Whimsical Prophet
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 20 February 2004
Randy Newman: Barbican, London ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 29 November 2003
ACCORDING TO A body of instrument suppliers called the Music Industries Association, in the last 12 months the British people bought no less than 700,000 ...
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Chain Reaction
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 17 June 1995
"I MUST REMEMBER," says Jim Reid, "never to come here again." ...
Willie Nelson: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 5 April 2005
AT THIS LATE stage, attending a Willie Nelson concert is more a gesture of pilgrimage than anything else. Nelson, now 71, with a ponytail that ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 21 February 2004
YOU MAY HAVE heard this yarn – it's one of those things people email each other, that they might share a chuckle at the foibles ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 25 February 1995
IF NOTHING ELSE, it's one of the better conjuring tricks of the age. Sleeper, as a musical entity, are resolutely standard issue, yet are hailed ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 10 July 2004
THERE IS NO PERSON more deluded than he or she who has a song programmed into their mobile phone. ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 28 January 2006
WALK THE LINE, James Mangold's cinematic telling of the early life of Johnny Cash, takes its title from one of its subject's best-known songs. ...
The Long Ryders: Lock 17, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 5 July 2004
THE LONG RYDERS enter to a tape of the theme tune from The Magnificent Seven, and begin their set with a cover of the Byrds' ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 11 July 1997
THE LAND AROUND here looks like nothing much at all, which is why it can be made to look like almost anything you like. ...
U2: The Year of Living Dangerously
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Irish Independent, 30 December 1997
U2 started '97 badly, but their annus horribilis has undergone a miraculous recovery. Interview: Andrew Mueller ...
Microdisney: Daunt Square To Elsewhere
Sleeve notes by Andrew Mueller, Castle, 2007
THE VERY fact of this compilation's existence tells you a great deal about the music it contains, and the band it honours. The most recent ...
Report by Andrew Mueller, Vox, October 1994
Only the pissing rain made Woodstock '94 faithful to the original. Mostly, it was a hyped-up, chaotic gathering of middle-class punters and middle-order bands. ...
Arrested Development: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 1 October 1994
IT TAKES A while, but I finally work out what it is they remind me of. ...
Nirvana, Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam: Reluctant Hero
Comment by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1995
After years of putting Eddie Vedder down, Kurt Cobain's final retribution was to pass him Grunge's crown of thorns. But will he be able to ...
R.E.M., Radiohead: R.E.M./Radiohead: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, CT
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 21 October 1995
SCARY 'MONSTERS' AND SUPER 'CREEPS' ...
The Fatima Mansions: Fatima Mansions: The Garage, Highbury, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994
THE FIRST hundred through the doors are issued with oranges — satsumas are out of season — and a free single ('Humiliate Me') in a ...
Morrissey: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 18 February 1995
The Boxer Beat ...
Bob Mould, Sugar: Sugar: Big Rock Candy Mountain
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 August 1992
Sugar are Bob Mould's New Band. Bob Mould used to be in Husker Du. Without Husker Du, maybe Nirvana would never have happened. Andrew Mueller ...
PJ Harvey: Yeovil! Bum Rush The Show: PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (Island)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 25 February 1995
From Somerset with love? It came from the west. It sounds like the Deep South. Polly Harvey's third LP proper is one scary place to ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 4 March 1995
Slash is probably as close to a rock'n'roll animal as we've got. He's also a rock'n'roller with a lot of animals – specifically cats and ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 20 February 1992
Like Nirvana and Jane's Addiction before them, PEARL JAM look set to become this year's big US rock event. With Top 20 single 'Alive', they've ...
Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland: Scott Weiland: No More Mr Vice Guy
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Vox, June 1998
As leader of the Stone Temple Pilots, he took lots of drugs, sold lots of records and was hated by the critics. Now he's off ...
Tupac Shakur: A Load Of Bollock: 2Pac: Me Against The World (Interscope)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 1 April 1995
Ner-ner, ner-ner slammm!!! And another one! Is 2Pac (sorry, make that 1Pac) just the shot in the balls rap so sorely needs, or a monorchid ...
Amy Winehouse: Back To Black (Island) ****
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2006
The first wasn't a fluke. Fine follow-up to Frank ...
Mariah Carey: Mariah Carey (CBS)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 Spring 1990
MARIAH CAREY is a very very pretty girl and she has a very very wonderful voice and her debut album is an absolute dog. Comparisons ...
Guns N' Roses: The Endless Wait For Chinese Democracy
Report by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2007
It has been 5650 days since Guns N' Roses last released an album of original material. 24 musicians, 8 producers and 15 million dollars later… ...
Ride, Slowdive: Forever Now: Ride/Slowdive: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 9 March 1991
RIDE, perhaps, are just too much. Too soon, too quick, too assured, too contemporary, too praised, too openly derivative to even be insulted by being ...
Nirvana: Postcard From The Edge: Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 29 October 1994
When Nirvana embarked upon MTV's Unplugged session last year, no one dreamed it would be their last-ever album. Now, handicapped as it is by the ...
Elastica: Things that make you go URGGHHH!
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Vox, December 1994
JUSTINE FRISCHMANN sings and plays guitar with Elastica, a band whose cool balance of ingenuousness and ingenuity should shortly eclipse her other claims to fame as ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 16 December 1995
Green Day's major label debut LP sold more than Nevermind, Vitalogy, Monster and Zooropa. Their new one isn't doing too badly, either. Andrew Mueller meets ...
Echobelly: Get Yer Sonya Ya's Out!
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 October 1994
You may have read about ECHOBELLY before, but you won't have — seen them clambering on a roof in Manchester! Watched them in a courtroom ...
The Sugarcubes: Joyriders On The Storm
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 1 February 1992
"The shock of the renewed" is how ANDREW MUELLER magnificently greets Stick Around For Joy, The 'Cubes' return to the forefront of the fray. Hang ...
Counting Crows: Abacus:Arrival
Interview by Andrew Mueller, New Musical Express, 23 April 1994
They've gone from COUNTING CROWS to counting dollars in the space of one album, but rook leader ADAM DURITZ still has to avoid the questions ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2010
Beguiling fourth from the impressively unclassifiable London brainiacs. ...
Wendy James: This Year's Model: The Second Coming of Wendy James
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 6 February 1993
The last time we spoke to WENDY JAMES, she made a lot of typically outrageous claims for herself. She would be the biggest name in ...
Suede: New Tower Generation: Suede: The Empire Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
I'D ARRIVED WITH half an idea that maybe Suede had stopped mattering, that they'd wandered off into irrelevance, thanked for the memories but not really ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Blah Blah Blah, March 1997
Deadly serious music, fantastically frivolous band — Veruca Salt's Nina and Louise raise a snigger at that great British institution: afternoon tea ...
Report by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 August 1992
It's Glastonbury on wheels, a mobile Reading, the lovechild and legacy of ex-Jane's Addiction frontman and all-round chap, Perry Farrell. It's LOLLAPALOOZA, in its second ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 23 November 1991
From out of Nowhere, California, to topping the English independent charts and headlining London, HOLE have been one of the year's most talked-about bands. A laughable hangover of the post-Sub Pop ...
Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley: Brad Paisley/Zac Brown Band: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 13 March 2017
Hats off to two entertaining stars of the C2C festival who take contrasting approaches to God, the south and the good ol' US of A. ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
THOSE OF you by now wearied of the periodic meanders up the garden path you have made at this paper's behest will read this, as ...
Johnny Marr, The Smiths, The The: Johnny Marr: Escape from Strangeways
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 30 September 1989
THIS WEEK, THE THE'S WORLD TOUR FINALLY HITS BRITAIN. ANDREW MUELLER JOINED THE TOUR IN AUSTRALIA TO TALK TO MARR ABOUT HIS ROLE AS ROCK'S ...
Cast: Dull and Duller — Cast: All Change (Polydor 12 tks/47 mins)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 14 October 1995
If the current boom in anything involving jangly melodies played on big Rickenbacker guitars means we have to listen to ultra-conservative, imagination-free trad porridge from ...
Lucinda Williams: Annadale Hotel, Sydney
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 6 January 1990
MICK FROM Weddings Parties Anything and Jon from Paul Kelly's Messengers are The Indigo Boys, the support act, and something I miss entirely except for ...
Juno Reactor, Traci Lords: Traci Lords: 1000 Fires (Radioactive RARD11211 10 tracks/55 mins/FP)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 April 1995
Let's be perfectly frances here — our Traci may be famous for a lot of things, but musical talent is not one of them. Shame, ...
The City: Now That Everything's Been Said
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2015
Carole King's missing link between songwriter and solo superstar. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, February 2010
EELS' MARK EVERETT, usually known as E, has not deployed an unconsidered word in seven previous albums, but the title of his eighth is exquisite ...
Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen (Kitchenware/Sony)
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2007
Remastered '85 masterpiece with extra acoustic disc. ...
The Louvin Brothers, Charlie Louvin: Charlie Louvin, 1927-2011
Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2011
THE PASSING OF Charlie Louvin on January 26,2011, aged 83, from complications associated with pancreatic cancer, detaches country music from a vital living root. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2007
Astonishing Two-Disc Trove Of Unreleased Mid-'90s Vintage. ...
David Gray: Flesh (Hut 8 39770 24 10 tracks/45 mins/FP)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 17 September 1994
FLESH. HONEST title. Bare, bloody, real and sweaty. Neat choice from a man apparently on an endearingly Quixotic solo crusade to rescue the idea of ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, February 2008
E's are good: revisiting a brilliant back catalogue ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2008
When American Music Club play live, frontman Mark Eitzel has to be kept away from the cash; if he thinks it's been a bad show, ...
Jimmy Page: "I want to make sure that I do this music. It's most important that it sees daylight."
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, February 2010
John Paul Jones has Them Crooked Vultures. Robert Plant has Alison Krauss. But what, exactly, is Jimmy Page planning for 2010? As a new movie ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, October 2008
Hard-living legend's monument to heartbreak. ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, October 2008
Intriguing and perplexing solo salvo from Rilo Kiley mainstay. ...
Seasick Steve: Man From Another Time
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2009
More hobo blues, ruthlessly pared on fourth LP. ...
Kirsty MaCcoll: Electric Landlady (Virgin)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 22 June 1991
VERILY AND forsooth, but there is no mess sorrier than that made by the naturally supremely agile coming a clumsy cropper. ...
The Replacements: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 27 April 1991
SHAKEDOWN! ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2010
The Brooklynites set sail for the big time with their fifth LP. ...
Steven Wells 1960-2009: A Tribute
Memoir by John Doran, Andrew Mueller, John Robb, Terry Staunton, David Stubbs, The Quietus, 29 June 2009
David Stubbs ...
Sigur Ros: The Band at the Edge of the World
Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Face, December 1999
Sigur Ros have a singer who sounds like a whale. Their lyrics are in a secret language. And they want to perfume the world with ...
Retrospective by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2009
Charlie, his hellraising late sibling Ira, and a 16-foot plywood Satan. The confessions of a country legend... ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2009
His first classic, midwifed by L.A.'s rock royalty, plus a disc of extras. ...
Guide by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2010
WHEN FRONTMAN David McComb died in 1999, aged 36, from heroin toxicity, it might have been expected that the band's reputation would dwindle. ...
Townes Van Zandt: The Nashville Sessions
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2015
IT COULD HAVE been the record that made him; maybe, even the record that saved him. ...
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2008
Improbably, they find a way to get better than ever. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2015
OVER NEARLY twenty years of existence on the fringes of Americana, Calexico have not paid for guitar-shaped swimming pools for their constituent members. But they ...
Gene, Supergrass: Astoria, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 4 February 1995
THE NINE O'CLOCK SNOOZE ...
Band Of Horses: Why Are You OK
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, August 2016
BAND OF HORSES' Ben Bridwell has muttered elsewhere his dissatisfaction that Why Are You OK will be heard for the first time largely in spring ...
Violent Femmes: New Times (Elektra/All Formats)
Review by Andrew Mueller, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
IN A SANE world, every child on earth would be issued with a copy of the Femmes' 1985 debut the moment they reached puberty — ...
Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2008
Nine albums in, the queen of heartbreak tempts fate by cheering up. ...
Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady: Drive-By Truckers/The Hold Steady: Rock'N'Roll Means Well…
Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2009
… that's the name of Autumn 2008's premium tour, a raucous Stateside double-header featuring Drive-By Truckers and the Hold Steady. From Atlanta to Tallahassee, Uncut ...
Janet Jackson: Sheffield Arena
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 April 1995
IN PRINCIPLE, of course, any member of the Jacksons should be the recipient of thunderous applause just for existing: they are, after all, the most ...
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2009
Confident country-soul from former Drive-By Trucker. ...
The Auteurs: Haughty by Nature
Interview by Andrew Mueller, New Musical Express, 9 April 1994
Yup, it's six-gun 'n' ten-gallon — from Odd bins — fun all the way. as THE AUTEURS release their second album, Now I'm A Cowboy. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2008
No irony. No significant changes. No problem! ...
Devo: You Say You Want A De-Evolution
Retrospective and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, August 2010
Well, you know, Devo changed the world. Uncut hears the story of Ohio's plantpot-hatted chroniclers of human absurdity. Or: how five snarky art-rockers consorted with ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, August 2008
Back with a blinder after almost a decade. ...
John Peel, Pulp: The Jarvis & John Show!
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 30 September 1995
This Saturday, JOHN PEEL will interview JARVIS COCKER on Radio 1FM and play tracks from PULP'S forthcoming album. ANDREW MUELLER goes to Peel Acres to ...
Radiohead, R.E.M.: Radiohead: Shiny Unhappy People*
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 28 October 1995
*Only kidding. RADIOHEAD aren't solely responsible for the Culture Of Despair. But they are prone to the occasional spot of miserabilist navel-gazing, and they have ...
Mötley Crüe: Entertainment Centre, Sydney
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 26 May 1990
THAT T'CRÜE'S latest single, 'Kickstart My Heart', is from the title down a towering work of dumbo rockin' genius must surely be unarguable. Like Guns ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2009
Rock juggernauts' 12th studio album is a grower, says Andrew Mueller ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2008
There are few bands that this magazine has championed as long and ardently as Lambchop. This fluctuating collective have dramatically broadened the palette of country ...
Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: The Traveling Kind
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2015
THE ADAGE which holds that you get your whole life to make your debut album, and barely a year or two to furnish your second, ...
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Cardinology
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2008
Intermittent greatness from Americana's hardest-working man. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Working On A Dream
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2009
After the furious state-of-the-union of Magic, the Boss returns to the home front — where things are rather better, says Andrew Mueller. ...
Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt: Steve Van Zandt: "We said we'd walk together, come what may…"
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2009
Forty years of friendship: Miami Steve Van Zandt on Bruce Springsteen ...
Kristin Hersh: Hips And Makers (4AD)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 January 1994
PELVIS IS KING ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2010
Onboard his battle bus, Uncut is granted a conference with the laid-back potentate of country music, Willie Nelson. On the agenda: Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, ...
R.E.M.: REM: Live From Austin TX
Film/DVD/TV Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2011
Greatness restored – a fine 2008 performance from a reinvigorated band ...
Living Colour: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 September 1990
ACTUALLY, Living Colour are quite frequently exhilarating. I mean, two days previously they'd cheered up an otherwise dismal early Reading Sunday. But that was just ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, February 2009
A deathless debut, and the first indie-rock album, says Andrew Mueller ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
ON A REMARKABLE autumn's day on which Chelsea go from to two down to three up at Leeds, Everett True gets hospitalised because he's too ...
Giant Sand: Blurry Blue Mountain
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, November 2010
A worthy addition to a catalogue already embarrassed with riches ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 1 September 1990
EMPEROR'S NUDE CLOTHES ...
Transvision Vamp: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 2 September 1989
VAMP COLLECTING ...
The Fatima Mansions: Fatima Mansions: Limelight Club, Belfast
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 June 1991
ANGER, as at least one iconic sneer has already correctly asserted, is an energy. It stimulates, inspires, propels, compels. Our contemporary pop climate is, make ...
Connie Smith: Long Line of Heartaches
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 2011
If Long Line of Heartaches tends toward the generic in its approach to country - and it does — Connie Smith has more excuse than ...
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: The Riot Stuff
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 23 May 1992
An uneasy truce hangs over America in the aftermath of the LA riots. Is there worse to come or has the anger, for the moment, ...
Lucinda Williams: Album By Album
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2009
"SNOW COVERS the street lamps and the windowsills," sang the alt.country queen on 2003's 'Minneapolis'. When Uncut calls her in that same city on her ...
Grant Lee Buffalo: Bad Moon Rising
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 17 September 1994
GRANT LEE BUFFALO'S new album, Mighty Joe Moon, is a raging apocalyptic masterpiece, a cinematic evocation of America sinking ever-deeper into lunacy, massacre and madness. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2007
PROBABLY AS EARLY as his fifth album, 1980's The River, Springsteen reached that sparsely populated stratosphere of artists recognised by surname alone, with a personal ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Mojo
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2010
NINE TRACKS INTO MOJO, Tom Petty's first album with The Heartbreakers for eight years, the band fire up a plodding blues groove, and Petty makes ...
R.E.M.: REM: Document — The 25th-anniversary reissue, accompanied by a contemporaneous live show
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2012
"I DON'T KNOW if I have any commercial expectations for this one at all," Peter Buck told Rolling Stone prior to the release of REM's ...
The Gaslight Anthem: Handwritten
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, August 2012
WHEN THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM's Brian Fallon last spoke to Uncut, as he drove home to New Jersey from Nashville after finishing work on Handwritten, he ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 7 September 1991
APPETITE FOR INSURRECTION ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2011
THE FIRST OF Polly Harvey's eighth studio album was heard in April 2010, when she made a memorably peculiar appearance on The Andrew Marr Show. ...
R.E.M.: REM: Collapse Into Now
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2011
AS RECENTLY as three years ago, it looked like REM were done. The first certifiably poor record of their astonishing career, 2004's Around The Sun ...
Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2011
An overdue monument to overlooked songwriter. 'AN AMERICAN TRILOGY' is the Mickey Newbury track you'll know if you know one, though he didn't so much ...
Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2011
This is a reaping song! Eight years on from Soul Journey, Welch and David Rawlings return with another timeless country classic... ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2011
Growling, whooping, yelping and crooning: a swaggering, multifarious tour-de-force, says Andrew Mueller ...
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Will Oldham: Album by Album
Retrospective and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2009
Will Oldham has developed a forbidding reputation since first attracting attention as part of the Palace Brothers in the early '90s. Whether glowering from album ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2012
Assured full-length debut by precocious spawn of Muscle Shoals. THERE IS MUCH to admire about Boys & Girls, the full-length debut by Alabama Shakes, not ...
U2: The Joshua Tree – remastered edition
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2008
20th anniversary reissue of an oft-maligned masterpiece. IT IS VEXINGLY DIFFICULT to improve upon the summation of The Joshua Tree offered by longtime U2 confidant Bill ...
The Lemonheads: Lemonheads: Varshons
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2009
THE COVERS ALBUM is traditionally either or both an indicator of complete creative stasis, or of the onset of monumental hubris. It's why any credible ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2012
Reunited — the foremost indie control freaks of the early '90s. "Instead of Simon & Garfunkel, we were more like Simon & Simon..." ...
Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, August 2015
2013's Southeastern, was, give or take the odd playful moment, a gripping description of the self-dug pit from which its composer had recently hauled himself. ...
Steve Earle & The Dukes: Terraplane
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2015
STEVE EARLE has earned the indulgences and deferences of statesmanhood: the discography he has assembled these last thirty years is marvellous and important. Not for ...
Steve Earle & the Dukes: Ghosts Of West Virginia
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2020
ON APRIL 5, 2010, 300 metres beneath Raleigh County, West Virginia, methane seeping from the coal seams of Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine ignited ...
Dead Can Dance: Back From The Grave!
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2012
Resurrected after 16 years – the high priest and priestess of global goth-ambience, Dead Can Dance. ...
The Decemberists — Reconstruction Of The Fables
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2011
COLIN MELOY grew up with "Paul Westerberg in one ear and Morrissey in the other". As hyperliterate frontman of The Decemberists, he has made rock ...
J. D. Souther: J.D. Souther: Natural History
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 13 June 2011
Old songs, newly recorded, many of which are fine indeed. ...
James: "We sold 30,000 T-shirts a month!"
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2007
IT'S EASY TO FORGET how huge James were. And still are — eager fans snapped up 25,000 tickets for their reunion tour in just half ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2009
WILL OLDHAM has developed a forbidding reputation since first attracting attention as part of the Palace Brothers in the early '90s. Whether glowering from album ...
My Life Story: Dingwall's, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 8 March 1996
JAKE SHILLINGFORD, My Life Story's implausibly wonderfully-named singer and songwriter, must live beneath an attic full of broken mirrors, must use a black cat as ...
Okkervil River: The Silver Gymnasium
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, October 2013
WILL SHEFF goes back to the future... ...
U2: The Joshua Tree (remastered edition)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2008
20th anniversary reissue of an oft-maligned masterpiece ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2013
EELS' 10TH ALBUM lives up to its fate-tempting title. ...
Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2013
A COLLABORATION at once overdue, and worth the wait. ...
Mark Mulcahy: Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2013
INFLUENTIAL FORMER Miracle Legion mainstay breaks a long silence. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2014
A LEANER, KEENER Hold Steady return from hiatus. ...
Felice Brothers: The Felice Brothers: Favorite Waitress
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2014
THE FELICE BROTHERS' previous proper album, 2011's Celebration, Florida was by far their least characteristic to date — and, for that reason, arguably their most ...
George Jones: 1931-2013 — "He could make you cry with his voice..."
Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2013
HIS FANS RANGED from Gram Parsons to Frank Sinatra, while Roger McGuinn calls him "more than just the greatest country singer ever". Yet, for much ...
PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy: Royal Festival Hall, London, October 9,2015
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2015
TONIGHT'S WORLD PREMIERE of PJ Harvey's latest work, The Hollow Of The Hand, is an exciting, occasionally electrifying, 30-minute rock'n'roll show — which, unfortunately, is ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2015
NEW ZEALAND HAS had an inestimable impact on The Chills. Had singer, guitarist and songwriter Martin Phillipps hailed from certain other countries, he would perhaps ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, September 2008
"CHRIST, I'M getting old," notes Randy Newman, distracted momentarily by his troublesome back. There is nothing, fortunately, wrong with his memory, as he trawls through ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 11 September 1993
THE BRITISH Royal Family would need to perish en masse in a satanic suicide pact to generate half the press that Zoo TV's long-awaited Irish ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2007
PLAYWRIGHT, NOVELIST, activist, actor... when Steve Earle has found a moment over the past couple of decades, he has also managed to string together a ...
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2012
Fired up by disco and punk, Jagger's swagger returns, with a disc of unreleased songs. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 9 January 1993
PERHAPS MORE than any of their contemporaries, Ride encapsulate all that is right and wrong with the English music scene as she now is, or ...
Brad Paisley: American Saturday Night
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 26 June 2009
A spirited challenge to the prejudices of both sides of country's enduring schism. ...
The Fatima Mansions, Microdisney, U2: Fatima Mansions: Putting the Catalan among the pigeons
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 6 June 1992
What can CATHAL COUGHLAN and BONO possibly have in common? ANDREW MUELLER flew to Barcelona to discover why the acerbic lead singer decided to support ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 10 May 2010
Shows how a lasting reputation can be founded upon one lucky strike. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, September 2018
Prolific enlivener of other people's records returns to centre stage. ...
Ryan Adams: "I only have so much fight in me…"
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2007
That's a damn sight more fight than most people, then. Meet the new Ryan Adams, back with a fine album, a new scrap with his ...
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